NKorea: Nearly 3.5M Volunteer for People's Army as Tensions Rise

[mystery-ak]

Saturday, 12 Aug 2017 07:58 AM



North Korea said on Saturday that nearly 3.5 million workers, party members and soldiers volunteered to join or rejoin its army to resist new U.N. sanctions and to fight against the United States in the current geopolitical tension between Pyongyang and Washington.

Rodong Sinmun, North Korea's official newspaper, said the volunteers had offered to join or rejoin the People's Army after the Korea Central News Agency (KCNA) issued a statement on Monday condemning new sanctions imposed by the United Nations in retaliation for North Korean missile tests.

Earlier this week, nuclear-armed North Korea threatened to strike the United States and its Pacific territory of Guam.

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[Smokin Joe]

Lest we forget, the North Korean people are subjected to Anti-American propaganda from cradle to grave. Those who recall the war with the Us and UN forces are in their 70s and older, or dead. All hate, all the time (kinda like listening to CNN). Naturally, they would sign up.
It may well be that with sanctions, it is the best way to get food, too.

[EC]

Since it's from the official mouthpiece - the figure could be 3.5 million. It could be twice that. It could be 0 (and more than likely is, if we use the term volunteer in the accepted sense, not the military sense).

However, since everyone in NK volunteers for the military anyways since the military eat more than once a week, it's a wash and a fairly useless bit of propaganda.

[Smokin Joe]

Since it's from the official mouthpiece - the figure could be 3.5 million. It could be twice that. It could be 0 (and more than likely is, if we use the term volunteer in the accepted sense, not the military sense).

I'd guess the numbers may be exaggerated. As for volunteer, "You want eat? Sign here!".

[HonestJohn]

More like the North Korean authorities demanded all their reservists 'agree' that they'd like to go back onto active duty.

That said, many of them would probably want that, as they would eat better.

[edpc]

 Maybe we should send in DHS. They have 1.6 billion rounds.

[dfwgator]

Lest we forget, the North Korean people are subjected to Anti-American propaganda from cradle to grave. Those who recall the war with the Us and UN forces are in their 70s and older, or dead. All hate, all the time (kinda like listening to CNN). Naturally, they would sign up.
It may well be that with sanctions, it is the best way to get food, too.

I picture them like the "Volkssturm" in Nazi Germany in the last days of the war

[edpc]

I picture them like the "Volkssturm" in Nazi Germany in the last days of the war

Or even worse......

[ABX]

Volunteer like a United Airlines customer.

[edpc]

Volunteer like a United Airlines customer.

With the same results - ambling around bloodied, mumbling 'I need to go home....'

[dfwgator]

With the same results - ambling around bloodied, mumbling 'I need to go home....'

 

[the_doc]

This mess is so sad.  If there's a war between the Norks and the USA, there won't be much of a ground war for volunteers to dig in for.

[Cripplecreek]

Or even worse......

The Norks have been indoctrinated for decades. It doesn't surprise me that they could get that many volunteers or many more. They're taught from preschool age that Americans rape Korean women and eat children as well as every other conceivable atrocity.

[the_doc]

The Norks have been indoctrinated for decades. It doesn't surprise me that they could get that many volunteers or many more. They're taught from preschool age that Americans rape Korean women and eat children as well as every other conceivable atrocity.

3.5 million volunteers added to their active duty and reservist and paramilitary personnel (about 7.5 million in all, per 2016 Wikipedia article), brings their total under arms to 11 million.  This is about 44 percent of their entire population including women and children and elderly.  If we assume a fourth of their population, say, 9 million people, are not suited for military or at least paramilitary service, then the 11 million people uinder arms amount to almost 60 percent of all their able-bodied people.

That percentage tends to confirm that the Norks are a monstrously fanatical people as a whole.  The really spooky thing about that is that it suggests that we may not need to worry as much as we normally do about civilian casualties.  It looks like practically their whole country is our bitter enemy (just as you suggested).

I really do feel sorry for them.  But ignorant or not, they should have taken out the Fat Boy long before now. 

[Cripplecreek]

3.5 million volunteers added to their active duty and reservist and paramilitary personnel (about 7.5 million in all, per 2016 Wikipedia article), brings their total under arms to 11 million.  This is about 44 percent of their entire population including women and children and elderly.  If we assume a fourth of their population, say, 9 million people, are not suited for military or at least paramilitary service, then the 11 million people uinder arms amount to almost 60 percent of all their able-bodied people.

That percentage tends to confirm that the Norks are a monstrously fanatical people as a whole.  The really spooky thing about that is that it suggests that we may not need to worry as much as we normally do about civilian casualties.  It looks like practically their whole country is our bitter enemy (just as you suggested).

I really do feel sorry for them.  But ignorant or not, they should have taken out the Fat Boy long before now.

The problem is that the South Koreans do worry about the civilian casualties in the north because they see them as brethren held hostage.

[the_doc]

Maybe we should send in DHS. They have 1.6 billion rounds.

Nope.  That would violate the Geneva Convention.  (The DHS ammo is hollow-point and can only be used against Americans. The DHS has enough rounds to put about five bullets into every man, woman, and child in America.)

[the_doc]

The problem is that the South Koreans do worry about the civilian casualties in the north because they see them as brethren held hostage.

I'll grant you that.  But the Norks' "hostages" have been taught to hate the South Koreans.  The Norks are likely to kill about half a million South Koreans if they can get off a few minutes of salvos.

Anyway, the whole thing is a monumental mess.

[dfwgator]

I'll grant you that.  But the Norks' "hostages" have been taught to hate the South Koreans.  The Norks are likely to kill about half a million South Koreans if they can get off a few minutes of salvos.

Anyway, the whole thing is a monumental mess.

I don't believe the North Koreans are quite as brainwashed as people think.

I think back to Albania, which at one time, was pretty much just as messed as North Korea is.    Once the regime was overthrown, they very quickly became a US Ally, despite all the years of propaganda that labelled the US as the greatest evil on the planet.